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Word: bigs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Handicappers for the Summer News picked three big winners in Monday's races at Suffolk Downs; AUTOMEDON in the first, ZEKE'S BIRTHDAY in the sixth, and JOE FLATS in the ninth. If you had bet $2.00 on every horse that we picked to win you would have cashed $20.60 worth of winning tickets for a $2.60 profit...

Author: By The Scientist, | Title: Today's Bets At Suffolk Downs | 7/3/1969 | See Source »

...work out of the right-hand seat. After a day of laboriously scanning Loch Ness for the Great Orm, I sat down with a British newspaper and a friend to read "Police Arrest 179 at Harvard." It might have been any other school, save for the comparatively big play and for a few proper nouns. I had often been instructed not to use the word "campus" in connection with Harvard, for Harvard was not supposed to have a campus. But here it was being used a freely as if the story were about Berkeley or Columbia. And University Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From The End of Four Years | 6/30/1969 | See Source »

...find this logical for big city institutions," Hofer says, "but less logical for a university institution, and still less logical for a rare books library such as ours, where we primarily want to serve scholars. We are essentially here for scholarship work, and we allow the public in to the degree that it is scholarly. The real value of this library is that these are source materials for the scholar who wants to get right down to the fundamentals: where did it all come from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houghton Library | 6/30/1969 | See Source »

Thomas Hoving, director of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, has been making a big splash recently with his call for greater involvement of the public in the affairs of the art world. People at Harvard often talk of breaking down the barriers which have traditionally kept the University aloof from the life of the people of Cambridge. One must be careful, however, that in the process one does not dilute what Curator Bond has called "the raw material" of scholarship. One must be careful in building up a new community not to destroy another, equally important...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houghton Library | 6/30/1969 | See Source »

AUTOMEDON is ready and willing, RING BIG will be close, DOMRULLAH'S first start should be impressive...

Author: By Thomas R. Ittelson, | Title: Today's Winners At Suffolk Downs | 6/30/1969 | See Source »

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